The good news, Technology Review reports, is that developers at the conference seemed quite receptive to Microsoft’s courtship. Tim Burks, who founded the iOS app development and consulting company Radtastical and who helped organize the Silicon Valley iOS Developers’ Meetup group, told the publication that he was particularly impressed with how Microsoft organized its mobile developer tools, which he said were cleanly designed and intuitive to use.

“If you’re a professional dancer, would you want to dance on a stage with broken boards and holes on the floor?” he said. “No, you want to dance on a stage that’s clean and organized. That’s what these guys — especially Apple, and it looks like Microsoft — are like.”